REPORT 



OF THE 



BOARD OF REGENTS 



OF 



NORMAL SCHOOLS 



TO THE 



GOVERNOR 



OF THE 



STATE OF OREGON 



1909 




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SALEM, OREGON 

WIXLTS S. DUNIWAY, STATE PBINTEK 

1909 



REPORT 



OF THE 



BOARD OF REGENTS 



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NORMAL SCHOOLS 



TO THE 



GOVERNOR 



OF THE 



STATE OF OREGON 



1909 



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SALEM, OREGON 

WILLIS S. DUXIWAY, STATE PRINTER 

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LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL 



To His Excellency, Geo. E. Chamberlain, Governor of the State 
of Oregon— 

I have the honor to transmit herewith the first biennial report 
of the Board of Regents of Normal Schools, covering the period 
from its organization, July 10, 1907, to December 31, 1908. 

C. L. Starr, 

Secretary. 



REPORT. 



On June 7, 1907, in pursuance of the law previously quoted, 
Governor George E. Chamberlain appointed the following 
members of the Board of Regents : 

E. Hofer, Salem July 1, 1909 

E. E. Bragg, La Grande July 1, 1910 

W. B. Ayer, Portland July 1, 1911 

Henry J. Maier, The Dalles July 1, 1912 

Stephen Jewell, Grants Pass July 1, 1913 

C. E. Spence, Canby July 1, 19 08 

Governor George E. Chamberlain, Secretary of State F. W. 
Benson and Superintendent of Public Instruction J. H. Acker- 
man as members of the State Board of Education are, under 
the law, regents ex-officio. 

At the first meeting of the Board, held July 10, 1907, 
Governor George E. Chamberlain was elected president and 
C. L. Starr secretary of the Board of Regents, for the term 
of one year. 

The rules and by-laws for the government of the Board of 
Regents as adopted by the "Board July 18, 1907, and amended 
at the annual meeting of the Board June 30, 1908, follow : 

Rules and By-Laws for the Government of the Board of Regents. 

Adopted by the Regents, July 18, 1907 
Amended June 30, 1908. 

1. The officers of the Board shall be elected annually, by ballot, 
at the regular meeting in June, and their duties shall be such as may 
be prescribed by the law, or from time to time by the Board. 

2. The following standing committees, of three members each, 
shall be appointed by the president, for one year: 

An Executive Committee. 

A Committee on Finance. 

A Committee on Teachers. 

A Committee on Libraries. 

A Committee on Courses of Study. 

2. The Executive Committee. — The president of the Board shall 
be ex-officio a member of the Board and chairman. The committee, at 
any regular or special meeting, all members being notified, a majority 
thereof being present, may exercise and perform the general duties 
and powers of the Board during a recess thereof, but all such actions 
must be reported to the Board at its first meeting thereafter for its 
adoption or rejection. 



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4. The Executive Committee shall have charge of all the real and 
personal property acquired by the Board, of the erection of buildings, 
and of changes, repairs, or the enlargement of the same, determined 
by the Board for execution during the interim of the Board meetings; 
of all improvements, purchases of apparatus, furniture, fixtures and 
supplies not otherwise provided for. They shall audit all bills filed 
with them for expenditures made by authority of the Board, and all 
bills incurred by them for repairs while the Board is not in session, 
and shall file all bills audited by them with the secretary of the Board, 
for record; they may grant leaves of absence to presidents and mem- 
bers of the faculty and for these purposes shall meet at least once a 
month, which meeting shall be held on the first Wednesday after the 
first Monday, unless otherwise specially directed by the chairman. 

5 All bills must be itemized, receipted, duly verified and pre- 
pared as follows for approval by the committee: 

1. Bills for building and extraordinary repairs must be certi- 

fied to by the superintendent of construction, if any, and 
delivered to the secretary. 

2. Bills for fuel, light, water, and the monthly pay-rolls must 

be certified to by the respective presidents and delivered to 
the secretary- 

3. Bills for the reimbursement of expenses of appointed visitors 

must be certified to by the respective presidents and de- 
livered to the secretary. 

4. Bills for salaries and expenses of the secretary's office must 

be certified to by the secretary and delivered to the chair- 
man of the committee. 

5. Bills otherwise contracted by the authority of the Board 

must be certified to by the member authorized by resolu- 
tion to certify to the same and delivered to the secretary 
for audit by the committee. 

6. In order to have no delay in payments, claimants should 

comply strictly with these instructions, and all bills except 
pay-rolls must be filed with the secretary at least five days 
before the meeting of the committee, to insure immediate 
consideration. 

6 The Committee on Finance. — The Secretary of State shall be 
ex-officio a member of the committee and chairman of the Committee 
on Finance. The committee shall make and present at each annual 
and semi-annual meeting, a full report of receipts and disbursements 
of the Board during the preceding half year, together with an esti- 
mate of the probable income and expense for the ensuing half year. 

7. The Committee on Teachers. — It shall be the duty of the Com- 
mittee on Teachers acting conjointly with the respective presidents of 
the Normal Schools, to select teachers and recommend them to the 
Board. Vacancies in teachers' positions occurring in the intervals of 
the sessions of the Board may be filled by the committee under the 
advice of the respective presidents, and the committee shall imme- 
diately report the action to the secretary. The committee shall make 
a careful inspection of the work of the teachers in the several schools, 
at least once a year, shall appoint temporarily, with the approval of 
the respective presidents, such teachers for the several schools as are 
necessary to meet unusual demands upon the instructional forces, and 
shall determine the rates of compensation for services so rendered. 
The committee shall, through its chairman, execute a written contract, 
in duplicate, with such teacher appointed by themselves, or by the 
Board, which shall be in the form prescribed by the Board; they shall 



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advise with the presidents of the several schools, in the assignment of 
teachers to duty, and may discontinue the services of a teacher upon 
the conditions of the contract. The committee shall report at each 
meeting of the Board, their proceedings. At each semi-annual meet- 
ing the report of the Committee on Teachers shall state the name of 
each teacher employed by the Board at each of the schools, the duties 
performed, and the rate of salary paid. This report shall be printed 
in full in the secretary's report. 

8. Committee on Courses of Study. — The Superintendent of Pub- 
lic Instruction shall be ex-officio a member of the committee and chair- 
man of the Committee on Courses of Study. The Committee on Courses 
of Study shall call the attention of the Board to needed modifications 
in the courses of study and shall thoroughly inspect the administration 
of the same and report to the Board any deficiency in the scholastic and 
professional conduct of the schools which may need attention. 

9. Committee on Libraries. — The Committee on Libraries shall 
have general supervision and direction of the libraries, both text and 
reference libraries, and is authorized to supervise and control the pur- 
chase of books, pictures, and statuary for the several schools. It shall 
be the special duty of the committee to approve the purchase of all 
reference books before the order for same is placed by any school. 

10. The school year of each Normal School shall consist of two 
semesters, of twenty weeks each. There shall be one vacation of two 
weeks at the Christmas holidays. 

11. All persons attending in any department, or pursuing any 
work whatever therein, shall, before registering or entering any class, 
pay to the president an incidental or matriculation fee of $6.00 for 
each semester, students entering after the beginning of a semester to 
pay at the same rate to the end of that semester, and the amounts re- 
ceived by the presidents from said fee including all dormitory fees, 
shall be paid monthly to the secretary of the Board, and by him to the 
State Treasurer, to be placed in the fund known as the "Normal School 
Fund." There shall be levied in addition, such student body tax and 
laboratory fees in the several departments as the president and head of 
any deparment shall provide. The student body tax shall be disposed 
of as the rules and regulations governing the student body may pre- 
scribe; provided that no tuition or student body fee shall in any case 
be refunded. 

12. The secretary shall be the business agent of the Board, he 
shall keep in particular books, provided for that purpose, full and ac- 
curate accounts of the receipts and disbursements of each Normal 
School, which account shall show in detail the following facts: The 
amounts received and due from tuition and the amount disbursed for 
apparatus and cabinets, furniture, light, miscellaneous, printing, ref- 
erence books, repairs, salaries, stationery, text-books, water rent, minor 
and unclassified expenditures, and any other facts that the Board may 
demand, and make a report thereof to the president of the Board at 
the annual meeting, or oftener if required, and to any member of the 
Board at any time when requested. He shall have charge of and look 
after all requisitions and see that they are properly prepared and pre- 
sented to the Executive Committee for allowance and approval. All 
supplies to any school will be furnished only through a requisition 
from the president of the school to the secretary of the Board, and it 
shall be the duty of the secretary to approve all such requisitions and 
present them to the Executive Committee for its approval. He shall 



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keep complete and accurate minutes of the transactions of the Board 
as well as the transactions of the Executive Committee, issue all notices 
of meetings and perform such other duties as may be required of him 
by the Board or Executive Committee. He shall at the annual meet- 
ing submit a full and complete account of all the financial transactions 
of the Board, and such other matters as he may deem pertinent. 

13. The secretary of the Board shall prepare all vouchers for 
claims payable by warrants of the SecretaiT of State, in duplicate, one 
of which he shall file in his office and forward the other to the Secre- 
tary of State. 

14. He shall keep an account with all special appropriations made 
by the Board which shall show the date and amount of each appro- 
priation, the date when, and the purpose for which made, the persons 
to whom and the purposes for which disbursements from such appro- 
priations are made. 

15. He shall furnish the president with the necessary material for 
his biennial report, and shall perform such other duties as the Board 
may require. 

16. The salary of the secretary shall be one thousand and five 
hundred dollars per annum, payable in twelve monthly installments, 
and he shall be reimbursed for necessary expense of postage and for 
travel incurred in the service of the Board, and for other necessary 
cash outlay for the Board. He shall certify for audit and payment of 
bills of all kinds for the expense of his office. 

17. All purchases and contracts for and on behalf of a Normal 
School or any of its departments shall be made under the direction of 
the Executive Committee except where the Board otherwise specially 
directs, and all contracts shall be signed by the president and secre- 
tary of the Board. Purchases to the amount of $50.00 shall be made 
by contract, after competition, unless the character of material or arti- 
cle required renders competition impracticable and excepting books 
purchased of the dealer who is under contract to supply same to the 
public schools of the State. Any persons violating these regulations 
shall be held personally responsible, and the amount of the purchase or 
contract incurred by any such person shall be charged to and deducted 
from his salary or wages 

18. Necessary telegraph or postage or other emergency expenses 
may be paid by the president of the school and will be adjusted by 
the Board upon proper bills being presented. 

19. A president's contingent fund of two hundred dollars per 
year is hereby established at each of the schools, which may be ex- 
pended by the president in visiting schools and teachers' institutes, fully 
itemized bills for which shall be rendered by him and audited and paid 
by the Executive Committee in the usual manner and charged to the 
miscellaneous account of the school. 

20. The Board of Regents shall adopt a uniform course of study 
for the Normal Schools, and it shall be the duty of the president of 
each school to see that such course is followed, and each school shall 
use as the basis of its work in the training department the State 
Course of Study; and the text books used in both the Normal and the 
training school shall be those adopted by the State Text-book Commis- 
sion for use in the public schools of the State; provided that this shall 
not preclude any instructor from using other books for supplementary 
work. 



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21. The faculty of each Normal School shall be elected at a regu- 
lar meeting of the Board and shall consist of the president of the fac- 
ulty and such other persons as the Board of Regents may from time 
to time elect. It shall have the immediate government and discipline 
of the Normal School and the students thereof, and may make and en- 
force all necessary rules and regulations thereafter, a copy of which 
shall be filed with the secretary of the Board. Regular meetings of 
the faculty shall be held at least once a month during the session of 
the Normal School, and a record shall be kept of its proceedings, which 
shall be open to the inspection of the Board, or its authorized officers 
at any time. The members of the faculty and other employees of the 
Normal School shall hold office during the pleasure of the Board, un- 
less otherwise specially provided. 

2 2. The president of the faculty shall be the general administra- 
tive and executive officer of the school and the certified medium of 
communication between an employee, individually or collectively, in all 
matters involving the administration. He shall call and preside at all 
meetings of the faculty, appoint such committees thereof as it may 
prescribe, or as in his judgment may be necessary, and his consent 
shall be necessary to every faculty action affecting the administration 
of the Normal School. He shall frequently confer with the members 
of his faculty concerning their duties and work, and shall have a gen- 
eral supervision over the affairs of the Normal School. He shall from 
time to time give to the Board information in writing of said Normal 
School, and recommend to its president such measures as he shall deem 
necessary or proper. He shall see that the laws, rules and regulations 
and orders of the Board for the government of the Normal School are 
observed. He shall make a monthly report to the Board on blanks 
prepared for that purpose, of the enrollment, attendance, classification, 
studies pursued by each pupil, and such other data as the Board may 
from time to time prescribe. He may suspend any member of the 
faculty for insubordination, misconduct, or a violation of the rules of 
the school. In case of a suspension, the cause thereof must be at once 
reporter to the Committee on Teachers, who shall investigate any 
charges preferred, and if sustained, such teacher shall be dismissed. 

2 3. It shall be the duty of the president of the faculty to examine 
and select teachers and recommend same to the Committee of Teachers 
for employment. Each teacher shall be under the general direction 
of the president; provided, however, that no teacher shall be trans- 
ferred permanently, from the position to which he was elected or ap- 
pointed, without approval by the chairman of the Committee on 
Teachers. 

24. Leaves of absence for not more than five days in any year 
may be granted teachers for proper cause by the president of the school, 
and a statement of absence for any cause whatever during the month, 
and the cause, shall be filed by the president of the school, with the 
pay-roll. The general construction shall be that "proper cause" for 
absence shall involve a fair prospect of reflex benefit to the school by 
way of offset for absence, except that serious illness or death in a 
teacher's family, or immediate relative, shall be deemed a proper 
cause of absence. 

2 5. The inability of the members of the faculty to meet their 
classes and to conduct their regular work shall be promptly reported 
to the president of the school, and permission for absence from school 
during the session of school shall be obtained from the president of 
the school; provided, that leaves of absence to attend institutes may 
be obtained from the president. 



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2 6. The president of each school shall make a pay-roll of the 
teachers and other salaried employees, and shall forward same to the 
secretary for audit and allowance by the Executive Committee, said 
pay-roll to be- accompanied by a report of the president of the school as 
to irregularities in attendance of faculty or employees. 

2 7. The president of the school shall appoint the janitor and em- 
ploy such assistance as circumstances may require. He shall have 
authority to terminate, according to its terms, the contract with any 
employee at his school, which contract shall be signed in duplicate by 
him and the original filed in the office of the secretary of the Board- 
He shall receive all money from tuition, book rents, and sales, make all 
necessary regulations for collecting same and pay the same to the sec- 
retary of the Board, as required by law, and the regulations made by 
the Board; and the accounting for receipts at the semi-annual meeting 
shall be for the first half of the school year, and like accounting at the 
annual meeting shall be for the last half of the school year. 

2 8. It shall be the duty of the president, at the close of each 
school year, to make an annual report of all text-books, apparatus, cabi- 
nets, desks, and all other appliances belonging to the school, which 
have been purchased, sold, or have become valueless during the year, 
in accordance with the form prescribed by the Board; and the presi- 
dent of the school may call upon teachers to furnish necessary state- 
ments relating to same. 

2 9. Any teacher or student who shall feel aggrieved by the man- 
agement of the school and shall desire official action upon the grievance 
shall first present the matter in writing to the president of the school, 
who shall use his best offices for the satisfactory adjustment of the 
matter, and if he fails therein, he shall then at once refer the com- 
plaint, accompanied .by his report thereon, to the president of the 
Board for action, under the rules. 

30. As the efficiency of the Normal School depends largely upon 
the harmonious action of the faculty, the regents will hold the presi- 
dent to a strict, but reasonable accountability for the fidelity, ability 
and efficiency of all employees, and to that end it will depend upon 
him to recommend suitable persons only for such office, and to recom- 
mend such promotions and changes in salary as he may think advis- 
able, and report promptly any insubordination, inability, misconduct 
or neglect on the part of any member of the faculty and to recommend 
dismissals when advisable. 

31. As the time of each member of the faculty belongs to the Nor- 
mal School, no such member shall receive any compensation for work 
performed outside of the school during the school year, nor shall he 
enter upon nor engage in any work or enterprise outside his particular 
school work, of any kind or amount likely to lessen his full efficiency 
within the Normal School. Besides the general oversight and man- 
agement of the Normal School under his charge, including teaching 
and practice with classes, the president shall interest himself in in- 
creasing the attendance of students from the district in which the 
school is located, and to that end he may visit schools and attend 
teachers' institutes. 

32. Every member of the faculty of a Normal School shall at 
the time of his or her election have at least two years' experience in 
the public school work, and also be a graduate from a four years' Nor- 
mal School course, or of some institution of collegiate or university 
grade; provided, that this section shall not apply to present members 
of the faculty; provided further, that this provision shall not apply to 
teachers of music, physical training, drawing or manual training. 



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33. A book shall be kept by and under the direction of the head 
of each department or person in charge of any apparatus or movable 
property of the Normal School, in which shall be entered as soon as 
convenient, a complete list of such apparatus or property now on hand, 
or such as may hereafter be purchased from time to time, with the 
itemized cost thereof, and such memoranda in relation thereto as may 
be proper. With the aid of this book a complete inventory shall be made 
at the end of the year, and filed with the president of the school. 

34. No room and no part of the Normal School grounds shall be 
used for any other purpose than Normal School work, without per- 
mission of the president of the Normal School. 

35. At the close of each year the president shall make a full re- 
port in writing to the Board, of the conditions, prospects, and needs 
of the school under his charge. Each president shall attend at the 
request of the Board, any meeting of the Board, and by permission, be 
heard upon matters pertaining to his school; and his necessary ex- 
penses shall be allowed by the Board, and paid from the Normal 
School income. No president shall be absent from his duties for more 
than five days, unless ill; permission, however, may be granted by 
the president of the Board for longer absence. 

36. All members of the faculty shall furnish the president of the 
school from time to time, as often as requested, such information as he 
may desire, concerning the progress, standing, work or conduct of any 
students under their charge, and shall at the end of the semester make 
out blanks provided for that purpose and file in the president's office 
a report of the work of the term, accompanied with such suggestions as 
they may desire to make. Such reports shall be submitted to the 
Board for its consideration, and be subject to the inspection of any 
member thereof at any time. 

3 7. The president of the school is hereby authorized and directed 
on behalf of the Board to institute and prosecute criminal proceedings 
against any and all persons willfully injuring or defacing buildings or 
other property of the Normal Schools, and it is hereby made the duty 
of the faculty to expel immediately from connection with the Normal 
School any student or other person guilty of willfully defacing or other- 
wise injuring the property thereof. 

38. All pupils attending a Normal School shall be of good moral 
character and conduct themselves in accordance with the rules of the 
Board of Regents and the faculty; to be polite and respectful in their 
bearings toward their fellow students and the faculty, and to be 
prompt, diligent, and attentive to their work. Students on arriving 
at the school shall report at once to the president, who will make all 
arrangements for their entrance. Students from other normal schools, 
colleges or universities must bring certificates of good conduct from 
the faculty of the schools from whence they come, if so required by the 
president. Reports of absence or misconduct will be handed to the 
president every morning and students will be required to answer 
during the next day for said absence or misconduct, and the president 
will assign punishment or discipline as the case justifies. Contempt of 
authority by disobedience and insolence may be punished by suspen- 
sion or less severe penalty, at the discretion of the president. De- 
facing or injuring the school property, gambling, drunkenness, fight- 
ing, obscene or profane language, indecency, the entering of drinking 
or gambling saloons may be punished by suspension or less severe 
punishment, at the discretion of the president. 



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The drinking of intoxicating liquors while attending school is 
strictly prohibited. The use of tobacco in any form while in the 
buildings or on the campus, and the use of cigarettes is strictly pro- 
hibited while a student of the school, and the carrying of concealed 
weapons is prohibited. 

The president shall report all suspensions to the Executive Com- 
mittee, and if the suspension is sustained, the scholar shall be ex- 
pelled. 

In case the president advises any scholar to withdraw from the 
school and he refuses to do so, he shall be expelled. 

39. Each member of the Board is hereby authorized and empow- 
ered under the law, to certify his own personal bills wherein he ap- 
pears as claimant under oath. 

40. Any student who enters a Normal School shall be required to 
pursue at least four branches of study and among these shall be in- 
cluded professional subjects embraced in the year of such course pur- 
sued by the student. 

41. All books owned by any Normal School, and those purchased 
hereafter, shall be recorded, arranged, and catalogued, according to the 
system determined upon by the Oregon Library Commission, and under 
the direction of the Commission, the local librarian being instructed 
by a representative of said Commission. All purchases of books, unless 
the amount should be $50.00 or over, which are included in the State 
school library list, shall be made through the dealer who is under 
contract to supply same to the public schools of the State. Children's 
books for the model school library shall be chose"n from this list. No 
books or apparatus shall be bought from agents, members of the 
faculty, or of the Board. Each school shall arrange with the Com- 
mission annually for a course of instruction on the selection, care and 
use of libraries. 

42. Order of business: 

1. Read call for the meeting. 

2. Reading of the minutes for the previous meeting. 

3. Reports from special committees. 

4. Reports from standing committees. 

5. Report from Executive Committee. 

6. Report from president of the faculty. 

7. Election of members of the faculty. 

8. Election of officers of the Board of Regents. 

9. General business. 

10. Good of the school. 

11. Reading and approval of the minutes of the meeting. 

In all parliamentary questions, Cushing's Manual 
shall be authority. 

43. These rules may be suspended by a two-thirds vote of the 
members present or amended by a written notice being offered and 
lying over for one day, or to a succeeding meeting. 



Actions and Resolutions of the Board Affecting the Policy of 
the Normal Schools, and other Educational Matters. 

The Board of Regents was without legislative appropriation 
for the Normal Schools at Monmouth and Drain, and the 
policy of the Board in operating such institutions with funds 
received by donation, tuition, etc., is as follows: To receive 
no gifts or donations without the express understanding and 
agreement that no claim will be made for repayment of such 
gifts or donations by the State or Legislature, and that the 
Normal Schools at Monmouth and Drain will be operated only 
so long as there are funds in the Sate Treasury to meet the 
expenses of such operation. 

The act creating the Board of Regents of Normal Schools 
providing for the administration by such Board made no pro- 
vision for funds with which to defray the expenses of the ad- 
ministration and the Board provided for such expense by con- 
sidering it among the other expenses of the Normal Schools, 
apportioned to the schools in proportion to the total income, 
exclusive of donations made to the State for the use of any 
of said schools. 

A uniform course of study was adopted at one of the first 
meetings of the Board and provision made for a uniform sys- 
tem of monthly reports to be made to the secretary. 

The Committee on Courses of Study prepared a uniform 
course for one year, including at least one hour each day, in 
Theory and Practice of Teaching, for the district, union and 
county high schools of the State that provide a twelve years' 
course of study. The course thus provided has been adopted 
by many of the high schools of the Sate and is being success- 
fully carried out. 

The State Normal School at Drain was operated until the 
close of the school year, 1907-1908, and since that time the 
Normal School property has been leased to the School Board of 
District No. 22, Douglas County, Oregon, for public school 
purposes. 

A resolution which has been included in the recommenda- 
tions to the Legislature was passed at a meeting of the Board 
in which it was declared to be the sense of the members of the 
Board that the Board of Regents ,of the University of Oregon, 
Oregon Agricultural College, and of the Oregon State Normal 
Schools should be abolished and that a Board, consisting of 
five members, four to be appointed by the Governor — the 



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Superintendent of Public Instruction to be a member ex-officio 
— should have entire control of the above named schools. 

During the year the individual members of the Board, com- 
mittees selected from the members of the Board, Board of 
Visitors, appointed by the Governor, and the secretary have 
made visits of inspection to the several Normal Schools. 

Provision for the operation of summer Normal Schools at 
the different institutions was made as follows: Summer ses- 
sion may, with the consent of the Board, be operated in the 
Normal School under the direct supervision of the president. 
The plans for the session must be submitted to and approved 
by the Executive Committee. The faculty shall be recom- 
mended by the president and regularly elected. 

All advertising has been placed by the secretary, under the 
direction of the Executive Committee of the Board. The gen- 
eral printing of forms, diplomas, records, reports, etc., for the 
institutions has been done by the State Printer, under the direc- 
tion of the Executive Committee. 

The requirements for admission for 1907-1908 were gradu- 
ation from the eight grade of the public school and for 1908- 
1909 graduation from the ninth grade of the high school. In 
order to provide, during the present school year, for the 
changes made in the course of study, provision was made for 
the sub-freshman course, which would prepare the students 
for the work of the regular Normal course. 

A detailed statement of the receipts and disbursements of 
the four Normal Schools, as well as the expenses of adminis- 
tration, may be found in the office of the secretary of the 
Board. 



BOARD OF VISITORS. 

In compliance with Section 12, Chapter 189 of the Laws of 
Oregon, 1907, a Board of Visitors was appointed by the Gov- 
ernor. The members of this Board made a careful and search- 
ing inspection of each of the four normal schools of the State, 
and made a detailed report to the Governor. 

PERSONNEL OF BOARD. 

J. M. Powers, Superintendent of City Schools Salem, Oregon 

J. A. Churchill, Superintendent of City Schools Baker City, Oregon 

R. R. Turner, Superintendent of City Schools ..Grants Pass, Oregon 



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FINANCIAL STATEMENT, 1905-1906 APPROPRIATION. 

Balance on hand, 1905-1906 appropriations, July 10, 1907. 

Drain $ 2,521 40 

Monmouth - 3N 81 

Weston 6,001 85 

The above funds were available for unpaid claims of 1905-1906, and disbursements 
were made as follows: 

Drain $ 272 48 

Weston .. 21 00 

Balance 1905-1906 appropriations, October 12, 1908. 

Drain $ 2,249 92 

Monmouth 88 31 

Weston 5,980 85 

Balance on hand, 1905-1906 appropriations on December 81, 1908, revert to the State 
treasury. 

ATTENDANCE IN NORMAL SCHOOLS FOR SCHOOL YEAR 

1907-1908. 



ASHLAND. 

Total enrollment during year 

Average number belonging during year 
Average daily attendance during year.. 
Average per cent of attendance 

DRAIN. 

Total enrollment during year 

Average number belonging during year 
Average daily attendance during year.. 
Average per cent of attendance 

MONMOUTH. 

Total enrollment during year 

Average number belonging during year 
Average daily attendance during year.. 
Average per cent of attendance 

WESTON. 

Total enrollment during year 

Average number belonging during year 
Average daily attendance during year.. 
Average percent of attendance 



Normal 
depart- 
ment. 



Training 
depart- 
ment. 



172 

120 

115 

96 



87 
65 
64 



122 
86 
83 
96 



192 

181 

128 

96 



173 


137 


118 


114 


113 


109 


95 


96 


198 


150 


155 


107 


149 


100 


95 


93 



Attendance, summer sessions. 


1907. 


1908. 


Ashland . .. 


45 
79 


28 


Monmouth 


169 







GRADUATES OF NORMAL SCHOOLS, 1907-1908. 

Monmouth.. 48 

Drain 14 

Weston 22 

Ashland 28 



Total 112 



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RECORD OF STUDENTS IN THE NORMAL SCHOOL. 
In attendance during the school year 1907-1908. 



Institution. 


Teaching. 


Re-entered. 


Attending 
other in- 
stitutions. 


Otherwise 

engaged 

or not 

reported. 

78 
32 

54 


Total. 


Eastern Oregon State Normal 
School .. . - 


23 
90 

43 


87 
51 

57 


10 


198 


Oregon State Normal School 


173 


Southern Oregon State Normal 
School 


18 


172 











Report of the Central Oregon State Normal School, at Drain, not available. 

The Board of Regents recommends to the Legislature that 
appropriations for the Normal Schools at Ashland, Monmouth, 
and Weston be made for the next biennium as follows: 



School. 



Ashland__- 
Monmouth 
Weston 



Salaries. 



Main- 
tenance. 



iries. Purchase 
of land. 



$40,000 00 i $15,000 00 $ 1,000 00 
40,000 00 I 15,000 00 i 1,000 00 
40,000 00 j 15,000 00 ; 1,000 00 



$ 2, 060 00 



1,600 00 



Building 
and equip- 
ping dormi- 
tories. 



$ 50,000 00 
50, (XX) 00 
50,000 00 



DORMITORIES. 

(Weston) — ' ' Upwards of ninety per cent of the students at 
Weston are living in dormitories and cottages. There are two 
dormitories, one each for the young men and young women. 
Five cottages rented by the State are also occupied. Dormi- 
tories and cottages are crowded to their capacity. The lower 
floor of the boys' dormitory is occupied by the departments of 
manual training and domestic economy. This building is poorly 
heated, poorly ventilated, and is unsanitary in every respect. 
The girls' dormitory is clean and well managed, but the facili- 
ties for heating and ventilation here are also unsatifactory. In 
both dormitories there is an absence of fire protection of any 
kind, a condition which is positively dangerous. Twenty-five 
to thirty students are housed in cottages, three of which are 
occupied by boys and two by girls. There is need of a new, 
commodious, and modern dormitory for this school. In this 
event the building now occupied by the boys could be rear- 
ranged inside and equipped for the extension of the work in 
manual training and domestic economy, arid for the accommo- 
dation of overflow classes from the main building. The cottage 
system is not recommended. 

"Notwithstanding the conditions noted above, there is an 
excellent atmosphere in the home life of the students at Wes- 
ton, manifested in their respect for the management, in their 



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ready obedience to authority, and in their well ordered lives. 
There is apparent on all sides a fine moral and Christian tone, 
and the development of manly and womanly attributes, credit 
for which the committee is glad to give the teachers and super- 
visors in charge. ' ' 

The above is an extract from the report of the Board of 
Visitors and will apply to dormitory conditions at Ashland as 
well as at Weston. There is no dormitory at Monmouth or 
Drain. 

Arguments Set Forth by Presidents of Normal Schools for the 
Construction of Dormitories. 

Harry M. Shafer, President of the State Normal School at 
Ashland, Oregon: 

The need of a good dormitory at the State Normal School 
at Ashland presents itself in the following ways and for the 
appended reasons: 

1. BECAUSE OF PECULIAR LOCATION OF SCHOOL. 

The Normal School is two miles from the business section of 
the town. If a student lives in town he must pay both board 
and transportation. Hence his living expenses are excessive. 
Rather than pay the price of attending school and living in 
town, he will go to some school where cost of living comes 
within the range of his modest means. A satisfactory dormi- 
tory for girls is a sine qua non if the Ashland Normal is to 
become a first-class institution. Living in town is out of the 
question. 

2. IN ORDER TO ATTRACT AND RETAIN MOST DESIRABLE 

STUDENTS. 

Teaching should attract not only those who employ it as a 
means to some extraneous end or as a make-shift, but it should 
also tempt those who desire to engage in a worthy and dignified 
means of exerting human effort and human uplift. It should 
attract students from the best and most cultured homes, as well 
as those not so fortunate. Home life in the school should be of 
as high a type as possible in order to attract and retain young 
people from good homes, as well as to offer good environment 
to those who have had few privileges in that direction. A sat- 
isfactory dormitory is essetial in order to attract and retain 
students of refinement, and to offer better things to those who 
have lacked them. 

3. TO ATTRACT DESIRABLE CITIZENS TO THE STATE. 

Publicity and immigration are two words big with meaning 
in Oregon at the present moment. Prospective citizens are, 
first of all, asking as to educational advantages and opportuni- 



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ties. They have enjoy d them in their eastern homes and, be- 
fore locating in a new home, they will, in most cases, make sure 
that they are coming to a state that takes pride in an enlight- 
ened constituency, and that provides liberally for efficient edu- 
cation. Poor accommodations for students repel the home- 
seeker. A good dormitory is a magnet to attract the desirable 
immigrant. 

Last Friday three eastern families looked over the Ashland 
Normal; one remained; two left, going to another state. Why? 
Because they considered the facilities poor. 

Generous and hearty support of the State educational institu- 
tions at this time would give the State the greatest advertise- 
ment it could have during the next biennium. Its past parsi- 
mony is so well known and has been so widely advertised that 
the pursuance of the opposite policy would create a sensation 
over the entire United States. It would attract settlers from 
far and wide. 

Such magazine articles as the one written by State Superin- 
tendent Edward Hiatt of California, and the one by Albert 
Bushnell Hart, the historian, have been read from Cape Cod to 
the Golden Gate. A liberal support of education will open the 
eyes of the prospective settler to the spirit of the Oregon that 
is to come. 

4. INADEQUATE, UNSANITARY, AND UNHEALTHFUL CONDITION 

OF PRESENT DORMITORIES. 

The condition of the present dormitories was criticized by the 
Board of Visitors last year; it also has been discussed in the bi- 
ennial report for this year. Both of these reports give details 
which it is unnecessary to repeat here. Anyone interested should 
visit the dormitories, and then honestly answer the question: 
1 'Would I permit my own child to live under such conditions, I 
knowing them to be such? " 

Robert C. French, President of the State Normal School at 
Weston, Oregon: 

1. The growth and usefulness of the school depend entirly 
upon the facilities for the boarding accommodations of the stu- 
dents. There are few, if any, homes in Weston in which stu- 
dents could be accommodated and cared for. 

2. Parents who have properly considered the matter are un- 
willing to send their children to a school where all their time is 
not under the direct supervision of the faculty. 

3. The very best educational opportunities of a teacher in his 
work with the students are not confined to the class room, but 
are to be found in the hours of recreation, in social relations, and 
in the hours devoted to study outside of the school. 



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Our present accommodations in hired cottages and in two 
small dormitories are entirely inadequate, unsanitary, poorly 
ventilated, and without fire protection of any kind. 

E. D. Ressler, President of the Oregon State Normal School, 
Monmouth, Oregon: 

It is very much desired that the Legislature will make an 
appropriation for a dormitory at Monmouth, for the following 
reasons, among others: 

1. There is no such accommodation at present, the small frame 
dining hall has only three or four small rooms, none of which is 
properly arranged or furnished. 

2. It is universally agreed among educators that nonresident 
girls should be under the direct oversight of the school, and so 
far as I am informed, Monmouth is not only the sole exception 
in this particular among State institutions, but also among all 
institutions offering higher education in Oregon. 

3. The absence of such provision has been the source of fre- 
quent criticism on the part of parents who desired to educate 
their daughters here. 

4. Such a building would not only make adequate provision 
for students now enrolled, but would result in increased enroll- 
ment. 

5. The educational advantage would be considerable in the 
opportunities to instruct the students in the practical applica- 
tion of correct social usage, in manners, etc., as well as in 
morals. 

OCCUPATION OF STUDENTS. 

' It may be of interest to the Board to know what the gradu- 
ates of the Southern Oregon State Normal School are doing. 
In view of the fact that it is frequently stated that Normal 
School graduates do not teach, but marry and go to other occu- 
pations, we would say that since the State has assumed control 
of the Normal School, thirteen years ago, during four years of 
which time there has been no state aid, two hundred and twenty- 
nine persons have been graduated. Of these, thirty did not 
teach after graduation. At the present time thirty-five are 
married, six persons have taught twelve years, thirteen have 
taught eleven years, nine have taught ten years, eight have 
taught nine years, and one hundred and twenty-eight have 
taught from one to eight years each. Each year the entering 
class is larger than previous years. ' ' 

The above is an extract from the report of President Harry M. 
Shafer to the Board of Regents and will apply to the Normal 
School Alumni of the State. 



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SALARY BUDGET. 

1 In explanation of the salary budget, I desire to state that 
five recitations per day is full work for any self-respecting 
teacher, who must prepare adequately and give full strength 
and energy to his duties ; the average in similar institutions is 
nearer four. Our course of studv, on the semester plan, where 
each subject is taught twice each year, the plan we have had in 
operation at Monmouth for many years, and also the ideal plan 
to make the school available for the greatest number, requires 
eleven teachers, in addition to the classes taught by the presi- 
dent and principal of the training department. The train- 
ing department is the most vital part of our work and should 
have the full time of seven critics instead of four that we now 
employ ; we have had five before this year. Such a faculty can 
instruct three hundred students as well as one hundred or any 
smaller number, with the present course of study ; but as I have 
shown, a smaller number cannot handle the required classes if 
all are given, as the course of study prescribes. ' ' 

The above is an extract from the report of President E. D. 
Ressler to the Board of Regents and will apply to the salary 
budgets of all the Normal Schools of the State. 

BOARD OF REGENTS OF NORMAL SCHOOLS, 

Salem, Oregon. 

Geo. E. Chamberlain, Pres., 

E. Hofer, 

J. H. Ackerman, 

C. L. Starr, Secretary. Executive Committee. 



MINORITY REPORT 



W. B. Ayer, Regent State Normal Schools 



Governor Geo. E. Chamberlain 



To His Excellency, Geo. E. Chamberlain, Governor of the State 
of Oregon : 

Dear Sir: As I have been unable to agree with the recom- 
mendations of the majority of the Board of Regents of the Nor- 
mal Schools, it is only proper that the members of the Legisla- 
ture should be advised through you of my reasons for dissenting 
from their opinions. 

The necessity of providing the public schools with well trained 
and equipped teachers is generally recognized by all the states. 
It is a duty we owe the child and one that should not be shirked, 
but, rather, cheerfully undertaken, and I can not too strongly 
urge the importance of this branch of our educational system 
upon the attention of the members of the Legislature. 

The so-called " Normal School problem" has arisen in this 
State, not from a lack of appreciation by the people of the ne- 
cessity of this class of education, but from the fact that we 
have been attempting to maintain to many schools for the pop- 
ulation, and the amount of money necessary to provide proper 
facilities has been inadequate when divided among four schools. 
No wonder that dissatisfaction exists when the buildings and 
equipment are absolutely unfit, and the quality of instruction 
has been so poor. There is not one first-class building at any of 
the schools, and many of the buildings are a positive disgrace to 
the State. 

In regard to the quality of instruction provided at these State 
institutions, I have only to refer you to the report of the Visit- 
ing Board made to the Governor May 30, 1908, and would ask 
that their full report be given the most careful consideration. 
Out of fifty-one teachers reported upon, only sixteen were clas- 
sified as "good;" the balance as "fair" only, or absolutely 



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"poor." I have no hesitation in saying" that, in my judgment, 
the Normal Schools as they existed were a positive reflection 
upon the intelligence of the people of this State. 

Professor Sheldon, of the State University at Eugene, in his 
pamphlet on the ' ' State Normal School Systems of the United 
States, ' ' has gathered together the opinions of many experts on 
the question of the larger or the smaller school, the concensus 
of opinion being that the small school gives the better training; 
but the small school is put as low as 300, as high as 1,000. "The 
weight of opinion would place the line nearer the lower than 
the higher figure, perhaps at about 500. ' ' 

On the last page of the majority report of the Regents to the 
Governor, the following extract is made from a report of the 
president of Monmouth school, Mr. E. D. Ressler, to the Board 
of Regents: "Such a faculty can instruct 300 students as well 
as 100, or any smaller number." Yet we find that the total at- 
tendance at the three Normal Schools in this State January 15, 
1909, was only 285— an attendance that does not even equal the 
minimum number given in Professor Sheldon's pamphlet. If 
President Ressler' s statement is correct— and I can see no rea- 
son why it should be questioned— that 300 students can be edu- 
cated by the same faculty that is required for 100, why should 
the State waste its energies in maintaining three faculties at 
three schools? It is on this point that I disagree with the major- 
ity of the Board of Regents. For the present attendance, one 
school would serve the needs of the State, but it is evident that 
with our enormous area and great distances it would be a bur- 
den on the pupils to pay their traveling expenses to one central 
school, and I believe it is the duty of the State to maintain two 
thoroughly equipped Normal Schools of high standard and effi- 
ciency. Unfit and dilapidated buildings, poor and underpaid 
teachers will be no more able in the future than in the past to 
attract students and do their work towards supplying the needs 
of the State for educated instructors. 

At a full meeting of the Board of Regents, the question of 
the number of schools that should be continued was thoroughly 
discussed. Five members favored three schools and four mem- 
bers only two schools. They also recommended to the Legisla- 
ture that appropriations be made amounting to a total of 
$321,660, divided as follows : 



School. 


Salaries. 

$ 40, COO 00 
.O.Of'O no 
40,000 00 


,. . . t> , Building and 
Mainte- Libraries. Purchase equipping 
nance. of land. dormitories. 


i 

Ashland ._ _____ 

Monmouth 

Weston.. _ . 


$15,000 00 1 $ 1,000 00 $ 2,060 00 $ 50,000 00 

15.000 00 1. COO 00 50,000 00 

15.000 00 ; 1,000 00 ; 1,600 00 £0,000 00 


Totals 


$ 120,000 00 


$45,000 00 $ 3,000 00 $ 3,660 00 , $ 150,000 00 






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If the recommendation of the majority of the Board finds 
favor, we shall require an appropriation of $120,000 for instruc- 
tion in the three schools, $45,000 for maintenance, and $150,000 
for buildings. The appropriations asked for in the majority 
report are not excessive for each school, and at each succeeding 
session of the Legislature at least an equal amount will be rec- 
ommended. The amount required for operation will not grow 
less and the amount asked for buildings is only a beginning. 
This year it is for boys' dormitories ; at the next session it will 
be for girls' dormitories ; then for modern school buildings, first 
for one school and then another — all of which are absolutely 
necessary if three schools are to be maintained. But I ask, why 
this multiplication of plants when they are not needed ; why 
expend $55,000 unnecessarily for teachers' salaries and mainte- 
nance at one more school than is required? 

In conclusion, I would recommend that the Legislature make 
appropriation for two Normal Schools, one to be located in 
Eastern and one in Western Oregon, and that the location of 
the schools be left to the selection of the Board of Regents, and 
that it shall not be made incumbent upon them to retain the 
present location of either of the schools in Western Oregon. 

Respectfully submitted, 

W. B. Ayer, 
Regent of the State Board of Normal Schools. 

Portland, Oregon, January 23, 1909. 



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